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If you are approached by Syntax Editions or a director calling himself CS Leigh, beware he is a rip off merchant and will not pay you for the work done.
If you are approached by Syntax Editions or a director calling himself CS Leigh, beware he is a rip off merchant and will not pay you for the work done.
Oh dear, that doesn't sound good. What happened?
You are not the only one. I own an agency who represents photographers, stylists and hair/make-up artists. Syntax Editions approached our agency. They wanted to use two photographers for their magazine. Expenses were going to be paid. The whole experience with Syntax Editions was a true nightmare.
His managing director Robert Threes doesn't excist. This is CS Leigh himself. He just wants to come across professional. At first hand he comes across very polite and kind. But he is a true wolf in sheep clothing. He doesn't produce anything himself. He wants you to do it and he asks very kindly to pre pay everything.
CS Leigh makes promise after promise and he breaks every single one of them.
In the end we never got paid anything. He got his editorials and we never saw a copy. You can not buy the magazine online. A friend of mine in London tried to buy it but Selfridges is not selling it anymore because they say it doesn't sell. Same for the Serpetine Gallery. They only sell the left overs of the first copy.
So if CS Leigh every approaches you, IGNORE & AVOID that man as much as you can!
same here. did a shoot was never paid. it should come out since december and nothing is happening.
Interesting, did the shoot you did for him have anything to do with 'An American In Paris' Pineye?
I actually managed to get some money off him and he claims to want to finish the work and says he going to pay me the balance of what he owes me, but I'm not holding my breath.
no it was in london in september. he is telling me since december that the magazine will come out in 2 weeks but none of my friends in london can find it. i was thinking about taking a lawyer.
I'm sorry to hear that, I think a lawyer will end up being a waste of money and time, as far as I can see he never gives his address out and seems to have a connection with Paris, to sue someone you have to know their whereabouts.
Anyway what ever you do, good luck.
Video Production Services Company UK London
so it means i just lost a big amount of money and cant do anything about it? there are more photographers/agencies for sure that got mislead?
I'm sure there are, in fact there must be 100s of people and companies he's ripped off, I found an article about him in the Times in 2005. If you can find him sue him.
Video Production Services Company UK London
well i probably won't find him. i'm just astonished that nobody can track him and do something about it. i mean it's not a few pounds we are talking about. it's getting harder and harder to find reliable clients. Where can I find the article?


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Among important cognitive skills is "learning to see 'nonjudgmentally'–that is, to see what is happening rather than merely noticing how well or how badly it is happening," according to The Inner Game of Tennis. I read it earlier this month. The author, Tim Gallwey, is a long-time tennis coach who teaches the importance of developing cognitive skills for improving in tennis or any other activity.
When you hit a bad forehand and curse yourself, the part of you doing the cursing is "Self 1" and the part of you who hit the shot is "Self 2."
The key to better tennis–or better anything–lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2. (p. 10)
Soon after reading the book, a talk by Kathy Sierra was queued on my iPod and she happened to mention The Inner Game of Tennis. She said, to become a better performer, tell the dumber part of your brain (who Tim would call Self 1) to "shut up." Cut out the noise and the "chatter."
Back to Tim:
No matter what a person's complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found that the most beneficial first step is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing–that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is. (p. 25)
…a great deal of technique can be learned naturally by simply paying close attention to one's body, racket and ball while playing. (p. 54)
The process is an incredibly simple one. The important thing is to experience it. Don't intellectualize it. See what it feels like to ask yourself to do something and let it happen without any conscious trying. For most people it is a surprising experience, and the results speak for themselves. (p. 80)
It would be useful to all tennis players to undergo some "sensitivity training" with their bodies. The easiest way to get such training is simply to focus your attention on your body during practice. (p. 89)
Luann Udell has found it helpful to use a Wii Fitness Board in her physical rehabilitation (Wii-habilitation). The Wii system gives her immediate feedback on her balance, improving her proprioception. (Proprioception was a new word for me. It refers to our sense of the position of our body. For example, through proprioception we know the location of our tennis racket even when it's behind us on a backswing.)


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Google has unveiled its first own-branded tablet computer, taking the search engine company into competition with Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in an increasingly crowded and fast-growing market.
The company has partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer Asus to launch the Nexus 7, a 7in tablet computer built around Google's popular Android software.
The announcement, which came at Google's I/O developer conference in California, will pitch Google into battle with Apple's iPad and the online retailer Amazon, whose Kindle Fire tablet was launched in the US seven months ago. Priced at $199 (£127), Google's Nexus 7 is both more affordable and physically smaller than many of its rivals. Like the Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire has a 7in screen and is priced at £127.
Google's engineering director, Chris Yerga, said the Nexus 7 was a serious gaming device and that its small size meant it was ideal for emailing, browsing the web and downloading applications.
The Nexus 7 will be the first tablet computer to run Google's latest Jelly Bean Android software. It has a 1.2-megapixel camera – unlike the Kindle Fire – and is available with 8GB of memory (£159) or 16GB (£199).
Google has made repeated efforts to break into the tablet market, which was defined by Apple with the launch of the iPad in January 2010. Its first tablet-only software, Android 3.0 – which was known as Honeycomb – was introduced in January last year and was expected to create challengers to Apple's dominance, but fewer than 10m were sold in the first year, while Apple shipped more than 38m iPads last year.
Microsoft has also indicated that it thinks tablets are of growing importance. Last week the software multinational announced that it would be offering its own tablet, called Surface, which will run its next Windows 8 operating system – though it offered no dates or prices for the release. Windows 8 is expected in the autumn, probably in October.
Total sales of tablet computers will reach 105m units this year and 143m in 2013, according to the research firm IDC – compared with total PC sales of about 400m, of which more than 60% will be laptops.
Apple is expected to remain the dominant player in the tablet market for the foreseeable future, with Gartner forecasting that the iPad will account for 61.4% of all sales this year. Android tablets – which include a variety of manufacturers, including Sony and Motorola – are forecast to account for 31.9% of tablet computer sales this year.
Some analysts are sceptical that it will be able to make substantial inroads into Apple's dominant share.
Salman Chaudhry, analyst at the research firm Context, said: "Overall, we shouldn't expect this particular tablet to take on the iPad despite Google's efforts to differentiate it. Lessons haven't been learnt from previous tablet failures. The 7in tablets – RIM PlayBook, HTC Flyer – have been by and large unsuccessful, and are only really suitable for content consumption.
"Against this backdrop, strategy needs to be more aligned towards the Kindle Fire's purely 'content-consumption' orientated device. However, if Google is looking to take a bite out of Amazon's share, it will find that it's competing against a much more well-developed entertainment-orientated platform with huge, well-organised catalogues of books and media content."
Hugo Barra, head of Android product management, said 400m devices based on its operating system had been activated to date – up from 100m in June last year.
• This article has been updated to correct erroneous pricing information. Thanks to commenters for pointing this out.


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The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimated recently that the opioid epidemic cost the U.S. economy $504 billion in 2015. Even so, most Americans see addiction to prescription pain medication as a major problem but not a national emergency, according to a new analysis of poll data published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"At present, Americans consider taking increased national action to reduce deaths from opioid abuse a second-tier priority for government action. On a list of 15 domestic policy issues that were possible priorities for Congress and the President for 2017, opioids ranked sixth, named by 24% as an extremely important priority," Harvard's Robert Blendon and John Benson write.
The public is split over which level of government should lead the fight against opioid addiction, with 36 percent saying the federal government was most responsible, 28 percent saying state governments, and 21 percent saying local officials. "Similarly, asked what level of government should be primarily responsible for paying for programs aimed at reducing the number of people abusing prescription painkillers or opioids, about 41% said the federal government, versus 33% for state and 20% for local," the report says.
On the question of government spending to combat opioid addiction, the authors add: "An important finding from our review is that at a time when public- and private-sector leaders are seeking a substantial increase in government funding for opioid-addiction treatment programs and legislation requiring insurers to offer coverage for these treatments, polls show a large share of the public uncertain about the long-term effectiveness of treatment."


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July is the PRIME HARVEST MONTH! June crops are mature, tomatoes are in full color! Plants are still vibrant! August is hot, after a hot July, and plants are slowing down, shorter days. Harvest is slacking off, some plants are about to or already at a good time to allow seeding and seedsaving. Exceptions might be Winter Squash, Pumpkins. But July is the fabulous time for fresh eating harvests!
Harvest at your veggie's peak delicious moment! Juicy, crunchy, that certain squish in your mouth, sweet, full bodied flavor, vibrant texture, radiant, vitamin and mineral rich! Besides being delicious and beautiful, harvesting keeps your plant in production. Left on the plant, fruits start to dry and your plant stops production, goes into seeding mode. The fruit toughens, withers, loses flavor, maybe rots, sometimes brings insect scavenger pests that clean up, but spread to other plants. So, harvest right on time and let that radiance fill you! If you can't eat 'em all, freeze, can, give away to family, friends, people who can't garden, the local shelter!
Tomatoes can be harvested when they are green or when they get the color you chose! Bend cherry toms backwards on their stems so you get the cap and stem. This keeps them from splitting open when they are plucked. Next year you can get seeds for non cracking varieties! O' course, if they split, you absolutely must eat them on the spot so they don't spoil! 🙂 No fridging! Keep toms at room temp. Pink tomatoes ripen to a better taste and red color if they are left at room temperature. They do not turn red in the refrigerator, and red tomatoes kept in the refrigerator lose their flavor. If you want a tom to ripen, place it in a paper bag with an apple. No problem freezing toms whole! Just remove the stem core. You can blanch them and remove the skins first, or not…your choice.
Cucumbers – no storing on the vine. Your plant thinks it's done and stops producing. Cut, clip or carefully twist off while holding the vine. Probiotic pickle your cukes. University of California, Davis, says cukes are sensitive to temperatures below 50°F. They thrive and last longer at room temp. However, cucumbers, eggplant and peppers can be kept in the refrigerator for 1 to 3 days if they are used soon after removal from the refrigerator.
Refreshing Zero Calorie Cucumber Water! Martha Stewart says remove strips of cucumber skin, creating 1/2-inch-wide alternating bands of peeled and bare cucumber. Trim and discard ends. Halve cucumber lengthwise; cut into 1/2-inch slices. Combine cucumber and water in large pitcher; steep for 1 hour, and serve over ice.
Sweet Peppers – depends on the pepper. Let them stay on the plant if you planted ones for pretty colors. Cut or clip them off so not to damage your plant. Only wash them right before you plan on eating them; wetness decreases storage time. Store in a cool area, or only 1 to 3 days in a plastic bag in the vegetable crisper of refrigerator, separate from fruit. Green peppers will usually stay fresh longer than orange or red peppers. Quick-freeze ones you won't be using right away! Slice, dice, and freeze in baggies in the amounts you anticipate using in a stir fry or stew.
A note on Plumping up! Gardeners in hot regions will need to be especially patient with big bells, bells that change colors, and sweet roasting peppers. These tend to wait until the nights are longer and cooler in late summer before fruiting and plumping up. Gardeners growing these may want to plant banana peppers or sweet non-bells, which ripen earlier, in time to use with those bumper crops of tomatoes and basil. Some Peppers just need time on the plant to absorb nutrients and water and plump up their flesh, so pack your patience.
String Beans Harvest just about daily. If they bulge with seeds and start to dry, your plant thinks it's done and stops producing. Pick, pick, pick! Get them to the fridge vegetable drawer. If you have too many at once or want some for after season use, cut them to bite size pieces or freeze whole! Put as many per bag as you will use for the kind of meal you will use them for. If for a stew you will feast on for several days, you may want a larger quantity bag.
Carrots Check the shoulders of your carrots to see if they are the size you are wanting. A big carrot is not necessarily tough and woody. If you want tender snacking types, pull while they are smaller. Water well the day before pulling. Dig down beside them to loosen them if necessary so they don't break off in the ground. Carrots go limp if you leave them lying about. Cut the tops off to keep them fresh longer. Steam and eat the tops or compost them. Get your carrots cooled off in the fridge veggie drawer in a closed container with plenty of moisture, either wrapped in a damp towel or dunk them in cold water every couple of days if they're stored that long. Be creative with your cuts if you freeze some. Go diagonal, rippled, cubed, curled, sticks, or even whole!
Summer Squash, Zucchini Harvest in self defense! They get BIG, FAST! Some of you came from big families and like stuffing and baking them and would never think of harvesting them until they are huge, lotsa bang for your buck! Others that have a family of 1, can't possibly eat all that zuke, so harvest them quite small, fresh salad slicing size. The ridged types make pretty little star shaped slices! They like hanging out in the fridge, but not for long! They are more soft than carrots or peppers. Give away what you won't use asap.
Lettuce can be harvested at just about any size, but ideally needs to be harvested before it bolts, puts up a stalk, or immediately after. Left longer, the plant dries, the leaves usually bitter. Leave it for seeds, or compost it. Lettuce can be harvested several ways. Eat the thinnings of a group you may have deliberately overplanted for micro greens! When it is at a size you like, pick lower leaves and take them to the kitchen immediately. Wash, spin dry if you have a spinner, put them in a bag in the fridge veggie drawer. Feast daily until they are gone, go harvest some more. If harvesting a bit at a time drives you nutty, give it a whack about 2 " above the ground – above the first few leaves, and leave the root there. Good chance the root in the ground will regrow more lettuce if you keep the area moist! It won't likely be as big as the original plant, but you will have more lettuce. Or pull that root and toss it in the compost. Plant more lettuce! Your choice. Take that lovely beauty home and process as usual. If your plant has bolted, take the whole plant and the leaves that are still good. If your plant has been well watered, the leaves may not be bitter.
Sweet Corn When the silks turn brown and you push your fingernail in a kernel and it squirts milky juice, it's ready for harvest! It holds its sweetness only 2 to 5 days! Harvest early in the day, make speedy time to your fridge or the barbie because the sugars turn to starch very quickly! If you can't eat them right away, pop them in the freezer, husks on! If you love tamales, use those husks to wrap them!
Melons Harvest sooner by placing ripening melons on upside down aluminum pie pans or cans to keep them off the damp soil. The reflected heat and light will help them ripen evenly and sooner than when they are shaded by foliage or up in the cooler air on a trellis. Watermelons lose their flavor and deep red color if they are stored for longer than 3 days in the refrigerator. If you can't eat the big ones fast enough, plant smaller size varieties, like container types, or harvest as soon as possible. Uncut, store in a cool dry place, out of the sun up to a couple weeks. Cut melons should be in the fridge, an open container is fine. In general, melons prefer your countertop. Really, no storing melons. Just eat 'em!
OR! Make melon sorbet! Simplest recipe: one melon, juice of one lime, a few squirts of honey (some people use sugar) blend and freeze. Tasty and healthy on a hot day! Use an ice cream machine if you like. Variations might be a dusting of salt, syrup steeped with mint. Serve with fresh blackberries, blueberries, raspberries. Mmm…..
Potatoes are ready for digging two weeks after the plant flowers and later if you want them bigger! Wet up the soil until muddy, feel about for the smallest ones if you want new potatoes, or the biggest ones, leaving the new potatoes to get sizable for another harvest later yet. Store garlic, onions, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in a well ventilated area in the pantry, a paper bag also works well. While growing, protect potatoes from light to avoid greening. Be sure they are covered with soil.
Okra! If your summer has been hot enough you got some! They must be harvested before they get tough. Letting them get bigger simply doesn't pay. So look carefully daily for mature fruits and take 'em! I grow the burgundy and ruby types, slice them fresh over my salads. The slices make pretty little stars. Okra is most nutritious when it's fresh. Very fresh. Eat okra right at the garden or within a few days of harvesting it. Store okra loosely wrapped in a plastic bag in the fridge veggie drawer.
Strawberries Pick them when they are red and vibrant looking! Don't let them hang out on the plant where soil creatures or birds will nibble on them. Storing them is a little different. Quickly as possible, store fresh picked berries in a container lined with a paper towel or in a paper bag in the coldest part of your fridge. They will last about a week, but it's more fun to eat them super juicy freshest!
The counter storage area should be away from direct sunlight to prevent produce from becoming too warm. And don't put them in sealed plastic bags that don't let them ripen and increase decay.
Per UC Davis: Refrigerated fruits and vegetables should be kept in perforated plastic bags in the produce drawers of the refrigerator. You can either purchase perforated plastic bags or make small holes with a sharp object in unperforated bags (about 20 pin holes per medium-size bag). Separate fruits from vegetables (use one drawer for each group) to minimize the detrimental effects of ethylene produced by the fruits on the vegetables. Use all refrigerated fruits and vegetables within a few days since longer storage results in loss of freshness, flavor and nutrition.
Your SECOND HARVEST is SEEDS! As July goes on or in August, when you or your plant are ready, let your very best plants produce but don't harvest the fruits. Beans get lumpy with seeds and will dry completely. Let them dry on the vine for full nutrition from the mother plant. Let a cucumber yellow and dry. Let the corn cob dry and the kernels get hard. Cukes, peppers, melons, okra and squash are easy. Let cukes turn yellow, okra pods dry on the plant. Just remove the seeds and let them dry. Label the drying containers with date/year and name/variety! Tomatoes are a tiny bit of a process but not hard at all. See more!
Save enough seeds from your best plants for your own planting, for several rounds of planting across the next season, for replanting when there are losses, and some to give away or share at a seed swap. Keep the local race going. 2020 Note! As your plants come into seeding time, consider sharing them as soon as possible! "Little Free Seed Libraries" are Sprouting Up to Help Gardeners Share Seeds in Troubled Times. Take a look at some very clever and loving ideas!
Magical mini Dandelion seeds! Dandelion is a terrific companion plant, super nutritious and medicinal!
Some seeds, like beans and sunflower, are food in themselves, or used as spices and seasonings, Cilantro/Coriander or pepper seeds. They may be pounded to colorful powders. Others are medicinal, like Calendula or used in teas like Chamomile. Many are so pretty in gift jars, as art, in necklaces or as talismans!
With veggies, give away or store what you can't eat. Freezing is the simplest storage method. Cut veggies to the sizes you will use, put the quantity you will use in baggies, seal and freeze. Whole tomatoes, chopped peppers, beans, onions. If you need more than your freezer can hold, get into canning! Learn about it from a professional and do it safely and right! Probiotic pickle your cukes and cabbages and anything else you want to! That is a super healthy option!
See Simple & Easy Storage Ideas for your Harvest Bounty! Nothing wasted, inexpensively made, thankfully eaten!
Here's a quickie convenient reference graphic from UCDavis! Print it out and tape it to your fridge!
Enjoy your sumptuous meals! Sing a song of gratitude and glory!
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Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic! Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara's community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are often in a fog belt/marine layer most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is.


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An image of original factory product key code will be delivered via email to your provided email address for your convenience. Upon request the keycode and / or the original packaging with Certificate of Authenticity can be mailed to you. SoftwareMedia stores your keycode which can be accessed anytime under My Account in case you ever need to authenticate the purchase of a genuine license. For more info check out our FAQ PageThis is a license for two (2) processor cores and includes Software Assurance (SA). You must purchase a minimum of two (2) of these licenses for a total of four (4) cores.
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The core licenses provide an unlimited number of user or device connections. No CALs are required.
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Weather Blog: Dangerous Wind Chills Ahead
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! The coldest airmass in about two years will grip southeast Wisconsin early this week. In today's blog we discuss the potential dangerous wind chills that may accompany the bitter cold.
Let's start with the definition of 'wind chill' from the NWS.
The wind chill temperature is how cold people and animals feel when outside. Wind chill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by wind and cold. As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature. Therefore, the wind makes it FEEL much colder. If the temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind is blowing at 15 mph, the wind chill is -19 degrees Fahrenheit. At this wind chill temperature, exposed skin can freeze in 30 minutes.
The wind chill chart below shows temperature and wind speed to calculate the wind chill value.
In the coming days make sure to cover all exposed skin if you will be in the bitter cold wind chills for any amount of time. Here is how long it takes exposed skin to get frostbite or freeze under certain conditions.
- Wind Chill 0 to -19(F) Frostbite possible. Exposed skin can freeze within 5 minutes.
- Wind Chill -20 to -69(F) Frostbite likely. Exposed skin can freeze within 1 minute. Outdoor activity becomes dangerous.
Wind chills will fall into both of these categories early this week. The RPM future wind chills forecast map below is valid at 7am Monday. This shows forecast wind chills of -12 to -20 across south central and southeast Wisconsin.
The coldest morning, and likely the most dangerous for kids waiting at the bus stop will be Tuesday morning as wind chills may drop to -20 to -30 across southeast Wisconsin. The RPM future wind chills map is shown below.
Our part of the state may see a Wind Chill Advisory issued sometime Monday or Tuesday to alert everyone to the dangerous wind chills that are possible.
Temperatures will slowly moderate by mid-week, and a chance of snow will enter the forecast by Thursday. We will focus more on snow chances in the coming days as we enter a more active part of the weather pattern.
For the latest on the bitter cold, watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
Have a great day!
Jeremy Nelson


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NYAA Program: Cheer
Season: 2020
Policy: Practice Pick-up
The following policy and procedure addresses parents or guardians picking up players at the end of practices.
Parents or guardians will be required to report to Practice location at least 20 minutes prior to the end of each practice.
Important information is often conveyed to parents and guardians just prior to the conclusion of SHOWTIME. It is important that parents or guardians not miss the dissemination of this information that the Cheer director will be giving. In addition, coaches spend much time preparing and conducting practices. It is unfair to expect them to stay after practice to watch players whose parents are late picking them up.
In the event a player is left at the fields waiting for his parents/guardian to pick him up, two (2) NYAA Coaches must stay until the player is picked up.
No child, at any time, may be left alone with a Coach by him/herself.
In the event of inclement looking weather or actual bad weather please make your way to practice location earlier that usually to pick up your child.
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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
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The NUMCHARS function counts the number of characters in a text expression. When the value is a multiline text value, NUMCHARS returns the total number of characters in all the lines. The result returned by NUMCHARS has the same dimensions as the specified expression.
Tip:When you are using a multibyte character set, you can use the NULLIF function instead of the NUMCHARS function.
Return Value
The text expression whose characters are to be counted. NUMCHARS accepts either a TEXT or NTEXT argument. It does not perform an automatic conversion to either data type. It returns the information that is correct for the data type of the specified argument.
Example 8-43 Counting the Characters in the Longest Name
You would like to know the length of the names of your products so you can specify the appropriate width for the label column in a report. You can use the NUMCHARS function in combination with the LARGEST function to find the length of the longest label. Then use that value to set the column size. The following statements in a program find the longest name and use the character count to format a report.
firstcol = LARGEST(NUMCHARS(name.product))+1 LIMIT month TO FIRST 3 FOR product DO ROW WIDTH FIRSTCOL name.product WIDTH 6 ACROSS month - FIRST 3: units DOEND
When the program is run, it produces the following output.
3-Person Tents 200 203 269 Aluminum Canoes 347 400 482 Tennis Racquets 992 1,076 1,114 Warm-up Suits 1,096 1,214 1,294 Running Shoes 2,532 2,405 2,775


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Wealthy candidates line up for public funds
They are hardly charity cases.
Tom Foley owns a jet, while John McKinney can trace his bloodline to the co-founder of Standard Oil.
Yet the last two Republicans standing in the governor's race will more than likely be playing with house money for the duration the of the GOP primary race and then, for the party's eventual nominee, for the general election.
Both plan to accept public campaign funding under the Citizens' Election Program, availing themselves to millions of dollars in taxpayer money -- $1.4 million for the primary and $6 million for the general election -- despite their personal wealth.
It's become the new normal in Connecticut, where voters have time and again rejected self-funded candidates, including Foley, who spent $11 million of his private equity fortune in a narrow defeat to Democrat Dannel P. Malloy in 2010.
"The world is a different place than it was in 2010," Foley, the U.S. ambassador to Ireland under President George W. Bush, told Hearst Connecticut Media.
Four years ago, Foley criticized then-Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, his GOP primary foe, for not shouldering the costs of his campaign, telling the Hartford Courant, "He's a man of means. Why is he using the taxpayers' money? I would think he would use his own money."
Foley said his evolution on accepting public funding for a potential rematch with Malloy is not a case of hypocrisy, but an acknowledgement that the system discriminates against self-funded candidates.
"Basically, I think it's been intentional that the powers that be in Hartford have made it pretty much impossible to be competitive in a statewide race if you raise money under the old system," Foley said. "Yes, I'm not comfortable using public money to fund campaigns, but if that's the only way you can be competitive in a race, then that's the only choice that you have."
McKinney, who serves as the minority leader in the state Senate and is from Fairfield, downplayed his family's wealth.
"I'm not sure how I would fit into the same category as Tom Foley," McKinney said. "He wrote a check for in excess of $10 million to run four years ago. I'm not capable of doing that."
McKinney's maternal great-grandfather was a co-founder of Standard Oil.
"My mom's Standard Oil lineage is greatly exaggerated," McKinney said. "That's my mom. That's not me."
GOP stalwarts bemoaned that some of the same candidates who have been criticized in the past for trying to buy elections are now being questioned about running on the public dime.
"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't," said Edward Dadakis, a Republican State Central Committee member.
He is a Greenwich resident.
Said Dadakis of Foley and McKinney: "They're not billionaires. They're comfortable."
Foley's holdings have included a 125-foot motor yacht that is currently on the market for $4.9 million and is named Odalisque, the Turkish word for a female slave in a harem.
Candidates for governor must raise $250,000 in $100 increments to qualify for the state's so-called clean elections program. Foley qualified for the program on Thursday, while McKinney's application is still pending with the state Elections Enforcement Commission.
"A candidate's net worth is really not a factor," said Jerry Labriola Jr., the state GOP chairman. "After all, Dan Malloy just sold his home for $1.3 million and he's in the program. Rather, the labyrinth known as (the Citizens' Election Program) has become the ultimate test of a candidate's organizational ability and stamina. You have to earn that money."
Roy Occhiogrosso, a consultant to Malloy and the state Democratic Party, said the governor does not live in Foley's world.
"He grew up in a middle class family," Occhiogrosso said. "Those are his roots. That's where he comes from."
Guy Malanson, 67, a small business owner from Stratford and unaffiliated voter, bristled at taxpayers having to foot the bill for rich candidates to run for governor.
"It's ridiculous," Malanson said. "How does this make any sense?"
Democrat Ned Lamont, who spent $26 million of his cable television fortune running unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate and governor, said Foley's ability to qualify for public funding should help him -- not that any of the candidates are going to renounce their wealth.
"You want to know how to make a small fortune in politics? Start with a big fortune," Lamont quipped.
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The Danube Peaks Trail on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura is easy to explore on foot in four daily stages. The thin strip of the still-narrow Danube snakes its way through the valley while hikers usually take the path at lofty heights.
At any rate, a hefty 3,200 metres need to be climbed on the just under 60 kilometre Danube Peaks Trail. This German low mountain range used to be considered nothing more than good practice for the Alps, the "real" mountains. But this mindset has now changed as you can still go on a very demanding and high-level hike in the Danube Valley. Once hikers have scaled the Lemberg, they find themselves standing on top of the highest mountain in the Swabian Jura at an elevation of 1,015 metres. The reward? Vistas stretching across to the Alps and the Black Forest.
Other highlights on the Danube Peaks Trail include the medieval town of Mühlheim an der Donau and the juniper heaths. The Danube Valley narrows as you hike along the final stage of the trail from Fridingen to Beuron Archabbey. This part of the valley is also known as the Swabian Grand Canyon.
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Recently while serving at an event at my home church, I found myself in the volunteer room with two other single ladies. Our ages varied in decades–from the 30's to the 60's. Two of us were divorced and one never married.
I gave the name of a Christian Singles Group to one of the ladies after hearing her want of meeting other singles, particularly men. And the conversations of dating came up with varied experiences and opinions especially regarding online dating.
Personally I haven't done online dating in over 15 years and it scares me! If I am to date, I'd much prefer the friends to dating kind of way. However, since I haven't dated for a few years now I recognize I cannot be an authority on it at all! haha!
And I no longer attend single events. When I first came back to the church ten years ago, a single's group was a wonderful place where I met other singles, and I made women friendships that still carry on today.
Like I imagine any church ministry, the singles ministry is not without it's challenges. Good — no excellent leadership is needed. I've seen single ministries end due to lack of leadership. And believe that is a wise decision for churches.
I'll often hear "the church isn't serving singles well" from singles and those married, from elders and pastors.
But I wonder instead of the question being "How can churches meet the needs of singles?" it could be "How can singles meet the needs of the church?"
I know I may be getting some backs stiffening up with that question! I hope you can provide me with grace as I further the thoughts.
When hearing singles hearts, I hear their inner cries of wanting to belong, to be known. It's a need we all have. As Christians we learn that our heavenly Father knows us. He knows every hair on our head (Luke 12:7) and that we are more valuable to Him than many sparrows (Matthew 10:31). We know we have great worth in His eyes because we are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8) through the sacrifice of His only son (John 3:16). We know we are unconditionally loved (1 John 4:16).
No matter your status–single, divorced, widowed, married–His truths apply.
You are loved, worthy and valuable. And that includes in the church community. You add value to the church and provide a need that only the unique, wonderfully made you, can provide.
So to the single, my hope is you know you are already known, that your worth is securely planted from your identity in Christ and He has service for you to do, needs to be met by you that may include needs in your own church community. And maybe even ask yourself, a pastor, a friend–What's a need in the church I can meet?
To the church community as a whole, my hope is we serve like God calls us to serve all–with humility and without "selfish ambition or vain conceit." This serving of others includes no discrimination or labels but with tenderness and compassion because we are all "one in spirit and of one mind." (Philippians 2:1-4).
Back to the experiences and opinions on dating as a Christian….well that might be future post! haha!
What are ways you could serve as a single at your church, or, if not single, encourage singles as part of the oneness within the body?
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Have you been eyeing the drum-tight labor market, thinking you ought to get into the staffing business? If you can match the right people with the right jobs, that might just be a smart move. It was for Tom Potenza, 33, who in 1998 launched TechLink Inc., a Ramsey, New Jersey, staffing firm that provides IT professionals to clients who develop their own software, Web sites and other systems. "I was flipping through The New York Times and saw there were tons of jobs out there. I read about how the demand for good employees is so much greater than the supply," explains Potenza. A former computer programmer, he figured he had the connections to open a company to fill the need.
Potenza's timing couldn't have been better. A robust economy and low unemployment rate are driving the demand for workers. Companies vying for the same talent need an edge to compete. Increasingly, that edge is staffing companies.
In the old days, there were two kinds of staffing firms: temp agencies and recruiters. One placed people on a short-term basis, the other permanently. Those lines have now blurred, with many temp agencies doing direct placement and many recruitment firms arranging short-term contract work. This change has had such an impact that the leading industry organization, the former National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services, recently renamed itself the American Staffing Association (ASA) to reflect the current state of affairs.
The reason for the shift is twofold. "The staffing industry is changing in response to the business world, which has different employment needs than in the past," explains Jean Norton, founder of Staffing.com, an Austin, Texas, directory of industry staffing companies.
Plus, "People find they like the flexibility that working through a staffing company provides," adds Tim Brogan of the ASA in Alexandria, Virginia. "They see themselves as independent professionals."
There's a host of terms now used to describe the increasingly complex industry: staffing firms, employment agencies, employee leasing companies and personnel service suppliers, to name a few. Staffing is now a $72 billion industry that puts about 2.9 million people to work each day.
Start-Up Efforts
No doubt about it, competition in this business is steep, but so are profits. Choosing the right market and location is paramount. Deanna Kohlhoff, 34, founder of the Kohlhoff Group, a Round Rock, Texas, agency that staffs the high-tech industry, started capitalizing on the trend toward tech businesses five years ago. She started from a spare bedroom in her house with enough money from her old job to carry her through her first year. Today, Kohlhoff takes in a little more than $750,000 annually.
Finding an opening and seizing it is what gave Potenza his start. "I got into it at a perfect time," he says. His start-up required nothing more than a phone, a computer and a fax machine. Because he has a family to support, he socked $60,000 in the bank before quitting his job. Potenza's firm is expected to bring in $10 million this year.
Want to know how much cash to pull out? Check out the How Much Will You Need? section to help you do the math.
The hardest part about opening a staffing firm isn't the capital required, since little is needed. The real trick is finding clients who will use your services. "It was very difficult to get my foot in the door," Potenza acknowledges. He found most of his original clients through purchased mailing lists, networking and by scanning the help-wanted sections of newspapers. Once he snags a client, he maximizes the relationship by placing 10 to 15 people at a given firm. "I target larger companies, Fortune 500s, where they'll need more than one or two of my people," he explains.
Cultivating relationships with businesses also leads to word-of-mouth recommendation, the cornerstone of any thriving business. "The biggest percentage of work we do comes from referrals," Kohlhoff confirms.
Ben Smith, 28, founder of Intelitech, a Los Angeles staffing firm, learned the ropes by working for another staffing company. The one thing he didn't take from the company was clients. Thanks to a noncompete agreement, he had to start from scratch. Smith admits that translated into "eight months of really struggling," but he did manage to lure three of the company's employees away with him-even though it was six months before any of them drew a salary.
To drum up accounts, Smith turned to the telephone. "At first, it's all cold-calling, but then you start to build a client base," Smith says. "Once you get going, this business can be a cash cow." Indeed, Intelitech expects $5 million this year.
For Kristin Knight, 32, founder of Seattle-based Creative Assets, a staffing firm specializing in graphic arts talent, the most effective tool is her Web site. "It's the number-one marketing vehicle we have," she maintains. Indeed, the Internet helps in pumping up any business's visibility.
Keeping The Business On A Personal Level
To be successful, you must love profits and people. In addition to providing a generous benefits package, Creative Assets offers employees education credits for every hour worked. "It's very expensive," explains Knight, "but I need to have a training fund so I can attract and retain the kind of people I want." That strategy has paid off, as her business has blossomed into a $25 million company.
If you want to reel in top talent, you're going to have to offer good benefits, paid time off, and possibly 401(k) packages. You've got to court the client-worker and keep the romance humming along. "We get to know everyone on a personal basis and find out what's going on with their lives," says Smith, who periodically takes client-workers out for happy hour.
Do The Math
If you want to know just how hot this market is right now, look at the numbers: Last year, there were nearly 20,000 staffing firms around the country, according to Brogan. Many of those offices are spinoffs from original start-ups, usually in a different city from the debut locale. This indicates that entrepreneurs are not only staying in the industry, but are also expanding, a sure sign of serious profits.
Potenza plans to open a second office later this year in California, despite the fierce competition in the high-tech arena. "Business has been just incredible. Why not go there and take advantage of the opportunities?" he says. "Besides, part of being an entrepreneur is taking risks."
Likewise, Knight, who has established Creative Assets offices in Denver; Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and San Francisco and will soon have offices in Atlanta and Austin, Texas. The trick, she says, is to grow while maintaining personal relationships with clients. "We don't want people thinking we're only there because we want to make money," she says. "We want to develop lasting relationships."
For Smith, the hardest part about growing so fast is that you don't have a big learning curve, so when you make mistakes, they really sting. For instance, in a rush to get the company up to speed, Smith invested in "crappy computers" that cost the company $10,000 in a single day.
Still, Smith's business is thriving wonderfully. Why? "It's all about picking the right people and investing in them," he happily attests. "I credit my success to the people I have with me." How fitting. In a business that's all about finding the right people, there's no better place to make perfect matches than on your own home turf.
The Future Of The Staffing Industry
The staffing industry is expected to grow by 43.1 percent over the next 10 years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can tap into big growth by specializing. Here are projections for the fastest-growing staffing categories:
- Systems analysts: 125.9 percent
- Computer engineers: 65.7 percent
- Lawyers: 57.9 percent
- Landscape workers: 50.6 percent
- Machinists: 65.6 percent
- Administrative: 46.4 percent
Brain Food
- American Staffing Association (703-253-2020, www.staffingtoday.com)
- Co-Employment: Employer Liability Issues in Third Party Staffing Arrangements (American Staffing Services, 703-253-2020, $100)
- How To Start A Staffing Service (Entrepreneur Media Inc., $69, www.smallbizbooks.com)
- Staffing.com provides articles, news and a listings service for staffing agencies.
- Staffing Industry Resource Guide (Staffing Industry Resources, www.amazon.com, $89.50) by Inc. Staffing Industry Analysts
Contact Sources
Creative Assets, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.creativeassets.com
Intelitech Employment Services, (888) 311-0187, www.intelitechstaffing.com
The Kohlhoff Group, www.kogroup.com
TechLink Inc., (201) 995-0214, www.techlink-usa.com


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I was wondering where to report a problem. I previously posted about a Via C7 motherboard with a VT8237S southbridge not recognizing an SATA DVDrw on channel 2. Apparently the the chip supports one ide channel and two sata channels but the OpenBSD driver only supports one ide channel and 1 sata channel. The pciide and atapiscsi man pages do not say anything about this and those who rely on the man pages are going to disappointed. SATA burners are no more expensive than ide burner (although no faster) and make for a neater installation.
I suspect the developers who wrote the drivers had a good reason to not support the 2nd SATA channel. In the mini-ITX arena the major vendor is Intel which on my Atom 330 mobo works like a charm. Unless one plans to use a Via board with old ide hardware, they are really not well supported by OpenBSD and I believe the documentation should say so. Is "email@example.com" the right place to report an issue with the documentation.
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But given that the official release date for OpenBSD 4.9 is slightly less than two months now, creating the 4.9-release branch in CVS is likely to occur within the next week or so (Time has to be allowed to get the official CD sets reproduced & sent to the vendors...). Thus, getting this matter addressed is not likely to occur before tagging. Since your goal is to have someone look into this, I would suggest formally submitting a bug report via:
...just to ensure there is an audit trail & this doesn't get lost in the cracks.
Although I don't recall ever seeing an issue get dropped, it is best to use the established system.
OpenBSD has a single PCI IDE driver for multiple vendors/chipsets, this includes SATA controllers in PCI IDE mode (..instead of AHCI).
The driver is full of quirks for initilizating all sorts devices, setting up channels, etc.. and there are buggy/undocumented chipsets out there that don't work properly as-is.
If you want to get this resolved, send a bug report using sendbug(1) or send an email to bugs@ or even tech@.
This is not an issue with documentation, it is an issue with your chipset.
From http://www.openbsd.org/report.html
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I'm continuing to look at this issue sporadically and will restate the problem. It appears that that a number of Via southbridge chipsets (VT8237, VT8237A, VT8237S) only support one SATA drive in OpenBSD - they are supported in NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux. The error reports indicate the problem mostly on the bsd.rd kernel with two sata hard drives and in my case and sata hd along with an sata dvdrw drive. I have tried booting the straight /bsd kernel and in my case the boot hangs very early with the line
It appears that the bug occurred between 4.4 -> 4.5. One odd thing I noticed was that the GnoBSD i386 CD in livemode does not hang and does recognize the drive while jiggami's fluxbox CD hangs. The FAQ says the softraid mode of the chipsets is not supported but none of the bug reports were using raid, they just wanted a second sata drive.
The ethos is to trust the man pages and the FAQ prior to anything else but both of these essentially state the chipset is supported except in RAID mode. My bug report appears to languishing along with the others.
Not sure how much more effort to put into this - people buying these mobo's thinking they will get a supported chip are going to be unhappy.
There is nothing that we can do about it, make some noise on the lists or contact a developer who has touched that area of the tree recently.
If you don't provide them with logs, they won't fix it.
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28 August 2003
The Italian Presidency of the European Union has organised a Seminar of European Union Ministers of Culture, to be held in Venice from 28 to 31 August, in conjunction with the 60th Venice International Film Festival.
In the course of this seminar, discussions on Saturday 30 August will focus on the challenges arising from new technologies and the related support mechanisms for the distribution of European cinematographic works.
On this occasion ESA (in conjunction with its industrial partner Elsacom, as coordinator, together with Marinastudios and Cinecittà Holding) has been invited to demonstrate a project named E-Screen, which has been funded under its telecommunications programme.
The E-Screen project, the purpose of which is to develop an effective, economical and operational model based on the introduction of Digital and Electronic Cinema all over Europe, has led to the development of a network of digital screens in Europe, equipped with the latest technologies available and served by a satellite link. The project so far involves seven cinemas in five European countries and is likely to be extended to others.
The event on Saturday afternoon, structured as a talk show with guests from the industrial companies that are developing the system, will be filmed in High-Definition TV from ESA's ESRIN Establishment in Frascati near Rome, uplinked to a Eutelsat satellite and broadcast to Venice both at Palazzo Labia, where the European Union Ministers will be meeting, and in Sala Volpi for the general public of the Biennale.
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I wanted to explore the ethical potential of art through the portrayal of polluted slums and their dishevelled dwellers, making visible the struggles of victims of inequality. Easily recognised images of slums and starved individuals are alluded to in order to provoke compassion. These issues of humanity are simply presented in order to reflect the lives of billions of individuals who should be on the forefront of the global psyche. The fragility and immorality of our modern civilisation is coupled with the strength of impoverished individuals. The grouping of the printed faces suggests that together these individuals can form a movement for change.
Influencing artists: Käthe Kollwitz, Hema Upadhyay
Segall has created a body of work that is highly emotive and has a strong message. What is your response to this work? Discuss how Segall has visually interpreted her concept.
What is your initial response to The down trodden 1900 by Käthe Kollwitz? Consider the treatment of the figures. What emotions do you think they are experiencing? How does the arrangement of the figures influence your reading of the work? Write a description of the physical and emotive elements in the work.


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Harry Styles Smitten with Taylor Swift
Harry Styles' relationship with Taylor Swift is so serious that the pair are reportedly considering marriage already
Harry Styles is "totally in love" with Taylor Swift.
The One Direction heartthrob is completely smitten with the Love Story singer and friends believe the pair are even considering marriage, even though they only recently started dating.
A source told Us Weekly: "This [relationship] has gone from zero to 60 in seconds. Harry is totally in love. I can see them getting married in a week, just going for it."
Things are so serious between the couple that Taylor, 23, recently visited 18-year-old Harry's mother Anne in Cheshire, North West England, and is reportedly planning to buy a country retreat there.
A source previously said: "Harry and Taylor are crazy about each other. They just got back to LA together, after sharing a week-long vacation in England. While they were in the UK, they had a chance to drive up to Harry's mom's place in Cheshire and Taylor fell in love with the gorgeous countryside."
"They spent a day in Holmes Chapel, with Harry's mom Anne and his sister Gemma, before driving up to the Lake District. Taylor would love a really old, thick-walled cottage with a fire place. Harry's mother and sister have vowed to help her find the perfect place!"


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As luck would have it, I already had the lettuce growing in the garden, and had a couple of tomato plants from my mum, who had been given them by her friend. So I thought I would get it done nice and early. Then July happened, and August dissappeared into the ether. So I had missed it - till the entry date got extended. There still wasn't time to do it now, but they say if you want something done give it to a busy person.........
As I turned up once Micky was just curing a piece of loin for back bacon, and explained the difference between the dry curing they do and the brine curing. They learned both on the butchers course he did. With brine curing the bacon asborbs some of the brine so increases in volume and weight, hence the butcher or supermarket can charge more for it. Dry curing (with salt rubbed on direct) is far superior, but of course you lose a certain amount of weight. This is also why when you cook cheap bacon a watery goo comes out. When you cook the meadows' bacon it goes crispy because the water is taken out. I know which one I'd prefer. Their pigs are Berkshire/ Gloucester Old Spot cross - which is a great combination. Carol Webb breeds pure Berkshires and the meat is so gamey it's almost like wild boar and smallholders come from all aover the country for her weaners. The Meadows' cross breeds gives you the best of both worlds.
Fast forward 10 days to this morning, and it was time to open it up (below left) then dry it, and hang it by the fan for around an hour and half to dry it out (below middle) before sharpening the old knife and slicing it.
All through June, July and August the lettuce was going great guns. I'd planned on using rocket for this. Alas, as August went into September the lettuce was all going to seed and dying away, so I had to switch to plan B.
3. Tomatoes
4. Bread
5 Eggs! Yes 5 eggs! I was reminded a couple of weeks ago it had been so long since I'd made brioche. And this week I picked up a bread book in Cooking: The Books by Eric Truille & Ursula Ferrigno, and the brioche there looked like it had to be made. Great book by the way. I'm picky - it has to be something I'm realistically going to use. I will at some point post the recipe - but it's already 1am.....
It started off quite moist - which is no bad thing (nothing worse than heavy bread), so I kneaded it with the pastry scraper rather than by hand until it came together (middle). Then left it to rise for 1 1/2 hours before rolling out into a rectangle. I'm quite a mustard fan, so I spread it liberally with wholegrain mustard before laying on the bacon rashers.
I sprinkled the (cooled) sauteed nettles onto and spread the dried tomatoes in a line, then rolled it like a swiss roll into a long rope. This was the cut into 15. You almost cut through, but leave it attached then twist the bread round so it opens up. At this point the bacon was raw - I wanted it to cook in the bread so all the flavour and juice would go through it was it cooked.
Nice to eat - even better to share. So I shared it with some of my neighbouring businesses. I'd emailed the Basepoint manager earlier to say I'd bring it over just before 5 so people could pick some up on there way out (normal people finish at 5pm I hear), and I tweeted Vivid too. Assistant Basepoint manager Mel was being supervised by her son who was the first to tuck in......
Post note
The brioche was a great choice of bread - rich and flaky. Got to make more of it.
Maple cured bacon - now there's a thing to try next.
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text: When you bring food home from a grocery store, chances are you toss it in the fridge. Ever stop to wonder if that's your best move? People managed to store perishables before the era of refrigeration, and if you're imagining a root cellar full of cans and preserves, you're only partially right. Designer Jihyun Ryou has made it her mission to, er, preserve some of those old methods of preserving food, designing this minimalist system for the modern kitchen."We hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator," says Rhyou. "We don't observe the food any more and we don't understand how to treat it." Are you really treating your food badly when you pop it in the fridge? Well, you're sealing it in a cold box with a bunch of other food -- all of it off-gassing and slowly decomposing. Each item reacts to the chemical composition of the other items, and to the environment itself. Speaking of the environment, fridges are huge energy hogs. They rely on a constant supply of electricity. There was a time before abundant electricity was available when having a fridge in every home wasn't possible. If that time returns, we want to be prepared. Have some food-preservation tricks of your own? Submit them at Ryou's Tumblr. All photos courtesy of Jihyun Ryou.Apples and Potatoes Ryou says you should store apples and potatoes together. When apples are sitting around, they emit a lot of ethylene gas. This speeds up the ripening process of many fruits and vegetables. (So why are you storing them in a fruit drawer with berries you were hoping would last?) With potatoes, the ethylene has a different effect: It stops them from sprouting. This cute shelf lets the apples work for you.Eggs Eggs are quite porous, which is great if you're a chick trying to breathe, and much less great if you are a person hoping your breakfast isn't absorbing smells from the rest of the fridge. The cup in the middle is so you can test the eggs for freshness. Got a floating egg? Toss it. If they sink, they're still good.Fruit Vegetables There are a lot of vegetables that are actually fruits. Generally they are OK out of the fridge, but you need to keep them hydrated. This shelf makes that easier, says Ryou.Root Vegetables Root vegetables want to be vertical. It's how the organism grew in the first place. The sand makes it easy to keep your carrots and leeks upright, and helps with humidity as well, so they'll stay fresh longer.Spices The thing to do with spices is to keep them dry. Placing rice between the spices and the jar lids traps any moisture entering. Ryou also added hooks for hanging dried herbs or garlic.


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A small crowd of property and business owners gathered Tuesday night (Nov. 13) for the hearing on the final assessments for the 2012-13 street and utility improvements.
A small crowd of property and business owners gathered Tuesday night (Nov. 13) for the hearing on the final assessments for the 2012-13 street and utility improvements.
David Palm, City Engineer with Bolton & Menk explained that over 42 city blocks had approvements done to them. This week over 300 homeowners and businesses will or have received an invoice with final assessments for the project which cost over $4.4 million.
According to City Manager Mark Kober, assessment payments are due by Dec. 15. However, the council will allow the assessment payments to be spread out over 10 years at an interest rate of 3.5 percent per year. If payments are not paid in full in 30 days, payments are 1/10th principal plus interest per year for 10 years, divided into two tax payments per year.
Property owners were assessed for the following construction costs 100 percent unless otherwise noted. Those include :
•New street surfacing is assessed 25-100 percent to homeowners depending on the year the property was platted.
•Alley surfaced with asphalt with the city paying for the gravel base reconstruction under the asphalt.
•Curb and gutter, concrete and asphalt driveways and sidewalks.
•Sanitary sewer service.
Water main and service reconstruction is paid through the utilities user fees.
Palm gave a summary of improvements made. Over 20 city blocks had full street and utility reconstruction done, 8.5 city blocks were rehabilitated with street surfacing including minor utility repair and spot curb and gutter repair, two city blocks had complete curb, gutter and asphalt surface on previously graveled streets, five blocks included mill and overlay with spot curb and gutter repair, three alleys had a full surface reconstruction and three alleys had a partial surface reconstruction for a total of 42.5 blocks of construction.
"It was a difficult project because we had some setbacks, but it was an excellent year for construction," Kober added. "We appreciated everyone's patience with this project."
In other news, the council discussed in length the possibility of annexation of the remaining Snow farm acres. If the council decides to go ahead with the annexation ordinance 216 total acres would be annexed to the city, bringing 40 percent of the tax back to the city.
Currently the city is paying rural taxes that go to Brown County and School District 84. Kober said annexing the remaining Snow farm acres would not affect the school district and would economically benefit the city. The council took no action Tuesday evening on the item and will revisit the issue again at their regularly scheduled December meeting. According to Kober, 70 percent of the acres have already been annexed. The city is considering the remaining 30 acres.
In other news the council:
•Heard a first reading on a proposal by Wayne and Patricia Pelzel involving platting a parcel east of 4th Ave NE and north of the Birch St. Cul-de-sac. Pelzel indicated he would like to plat the far west cul-de-sac lot on Birch Street and pay all the deferrals on the property of around $50,000 to assure that 6th Ave NE will not be a thru street.
•Canvassed election results from the general election on Nov. 6. Kober added that voter turn-out was at an all-time Sleepy Eye record high.
•Approved a plumbing license for Jerald Lee of Brandon, MN to do general plumbing in Sleepy Eye.


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high price of cleaner air
Climate change legislation is one reason rates
are on the rise
Jim McCarty
note: Across the state, electric rates are on the rise. This
is the second in a series explaining why this is taking place
and what you can do to help manage your energy bill.
• August 2007 — "Great growth means rising rates."
• September 2007 — "The high costs of cleaner air."
• October 2007 — "The need for more baseload."
• November 2007 — "When time is money."
• December 2007 — "Unconventional kilowatts."
• January 2008 — "Spend now, save later."
• February 2008 — "What about transmission?"
• March 2008 — "The high price of fuel"
• April 2008 — "Negawatts"
• May 2008 — "The glass half full"
While debate continues
on whether or not the world is getting warmer, one fact has emerged
from the dialogue: Any attempt to lower the temperature will raise
the price consumers pay for electricity.
In fact, it's
already taking place. Electric utilities across the country have made
dramatic decreases in the greenhouse gas emissions coming from power
plants. But this progress has come at great cost. And past costs are
just the tip of the iceberg compared to what could be coming.
Each year,
the Environmental Protection Agency looks at emissions that could
affect health. Between 1970 and 2006, the six principal air pollutants
the agency measures dropped by 54 percent. While this was happening,
energy consumption increased 49 percent, the U.S. population increased
46 percent, vehicle miles traveled increased 177 percent and gross
domestic product increased 203 percent.
Associated Electric
Cooperative, which supplies wholesale power to electric co-ops in Missouri,
Iowa and Oklahoma, mirrors the national trend.
At Associated's power plants, the sulfur dioxide emissions rate
dropped 90 percent since 1994 while nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions rate
was cut 77 percent. Additional NOx reductions will come by 2009 when
equipment being added to the Thomas Hill plant is completed.
Those are
impressive numbers. But so is the price tag.
• In the past
13 years, Associated alone has invested $650 million to reduce emissions
at its coal-based power plants.
• In 2006, the
cost to operate emissions equipment at the Thomas Hill and New Madrid
plants totaled more than $12 million.
• Those costs
will increase to $16 million when Associated begins meeting the new
federal regulations starting in 2009.
• Operating
costs in 2006 to remove NOx totaled about $10 million.
• Associated
will spend $468 million on additional environmental improvements.
This includes $330 million to meet new standards passed by Congress.
• Depending
on future political and regulatory decisions, especially regarding
carbon control, these costs could be even higher.
"Make no mistake,
there is substantial cost to be paid to reduce carbon emissions
and that needs to be laid out on the political table," says Glenn
English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association. English and his staff have been tasked by the electric
cooperatives they represent with making sure Congress considers the
member at the end of the line during climate debate.
In their dialogue
with members of Congress, English and his staff agree that carbon
emissions must be reduced. But they draw a line in the sand when talk
turns to raising rates to force consumers to use less energy.
find themselves facing some who believe America's energy
is too cheap, and that the way to fight global warming
is to encourage conservation and efficiency through much higher energy
prices," English says. "Dollars
derived from rate increases must result in significant
gains worthy of the pain millions of our members will feel."
to home, the costs to add selective catalytic reduction equipment
to the Thomas Hill plant will rival the original cost to build
the plant. The $330 million price tag for that equipment is nearly
three times the price of a similar system installed at New Madrid seven
years ago. Driving that cost increase is global demand
for steel and other materials due to massive construction
projects in China and India.
Associated had to
go to France to get the 6,000 tons of steel for the project. They also
had to wait in line for the skilled workers, especially welders, to
build it. All of these factors are driving up the costs to generate
the electricity you use.
What's interesting
to note is that in these days when demand for electricity is growing,
none of these measures will add a single kilowatt-hour to the system.
Instead, they cut efficiency and add to the price of energy coming
out of the plant.
And these costs are
ultimately passed on to consumers.
Electric cooperatives
generate just 5 percent of the electricity used in the United States.
So why are they so concerned about the cost of
environmental compliance?
It's because
electric cooperatives depend more on coal for generation than the rest
of the industry. Co-op generation equals about 80 percent coal, while
investor-owned and municipal systems are about 50 percent coal.
So why
not switch from coal to another fuel source? Coal is by far the lowest-priced
fuel for generating electricity. The delivered
cost to generate 1 megawatt hour from coal
(fuel price plus transportation) is $13.
The next cheapest source, natural gas,
is roughly three times higher, at $47.
When energy costs
go up, they hit the poorest Americans the hardest. Those living at
the poverty level spend about 33 percent of their incomes on energy.
Cooperatives tend to serve areas with income levels 16 percent lower
than the national average.
Because they live
and work in the areas they serve, electric cooperative employees and
directors are especially sensitive to anything that will increase the
price of electricity to the cooperative's members.
a double-edged sword: Electric cooperatives want to do their part
to protect the environment. But they want to do it in a way that does
not cripple the economy.
As Congress debates
stricter measures designed to curb greenhouse gases, NRECA
is urging lawmakers to be honest with
consumers about the true costs of these
measures. They aren't the only voice speaking out.
In its July 6 edition,
The New York Times ran an editorial citing what they call "an unpleasant
and inescapable truth."
"Any serious
effort to fight warming will require everyone to pay more for energy," the
Times opined.
How much more is
still to be determined in the halls of Congress.